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(6) Montreal vs. (2) Ottawa

Head to Head:

Day 25: Montreal 4 Ottawa 1: Harding with the win

Day 28: Ottawa 3 Montreal 2 (SO): Hanzal with the sole SO goal in 5 rounds

Day 94: Ottawa 6 Montreal 5: Krejci with the hattrick in a battle of the backups

Day 148: Montreal 4 Ottawa 2: Rinne for the win

Day 151: Ottawa 5 Montreal 3: Krejci another 3 point game.

Looks to be a real good matchup. Krejci is very dangerous in spurts...He only got 1 point in the other three games. Montreal's scoring was pretty well spread out.

Playoff leaders:

Montreal:

Alexander Semin and Anze Kopitar: 11 points each
Matt Moulson and Patrick Marleau: 10 points each
Pekka Rinne: 8-2-1, 0.934 Sv%, 2.32 GAA, 3 first star performances

Ottawa:

David Krejci: 14 points
Eric Staal: 12 points
Vincent Lecavalier and Marc Savard: 10 points each (8 goals for Vinny)
Marc-Andre Fleury: 7-1-0, 0.924 Sv%, 2.43 GAA
Curtis McElhinney: 1-1-0, 0.928 Sv%, 2.50 GAA

Ottawa is showing some signs of fatigue, but that will likely be cleared up due to the extra day off they've earned themselves.

IR:
Montreal: Drew Stafford might be available late in the series
Ottawa: James van Riemsdyk should be back a bit earlier.

It will be very nice to have a conference final without hearing the American national anthem.

It will also be very nice to only have 200 km between cities, compared to 3,500+ km between Columbus and Anaheim. Here's hoping for a long Western Conference final with an exhausted victor for the winner of the East to walk over, whomever that may be.